Briefs
Short pieces summarising a part of my work for readers outside the field. Some take a single paper and say what it found and why it was worth writing; others gather a body of work built up over years and say what those papers add up to together. Each brief names the papers behind it, so the source is one click away.
Paper briefs
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Social licence for infrastructure
The Social Licence for Infrastructure framework and a sentiment-based way of measuring it, demonstrated on Sydney Metro Northwest.
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What Industry 5.0 means for project management
A Project Management Journal review of Industry 5.0, and the two concepts it proposes: project management 5.0 and project manager 5.0.
Topic briefs
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Social licence and public acceptance in infrastructure projects
Why technically approved projects still face resistance, and how social licence differs from public acceptance.
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Governing project networks: how far the rules from above reach
How firms are governed across repeated projects, from 28 network case studies and 124 interviews in ten countries, then tested in a survey of 225 responses.
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Social infrastructure PPPs: when the asset is a service
Four papers on partnerships in hospitals and aged care: three Chinese hospital models, the Northern Beaches Hospital inquiry, and an elderly care project in Shenzhen.
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Public-private partnerships and the paradox of where they go
Where partnerships actually end up, drawing on project databases in China, the UK and India, a city suitability model, and a survey of 353 officials.
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Relational contracting in public projects: what four cities show
Six papers from a NUS-led study in Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong and Sydney, on whether relationships can be managed in projects procured at arm’s length.
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Psychological contracts: the unwritten side of construction procurement
The unwritten agreements between construction firms and their procurement partners, from a survey of Australian construction managers and four focus groups.
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Digitising construction: policy, capability and the building site
Four studies with Chang’an University on how digitalisation is steered by policy, limited by firm capability, and finally realised on a road under construction.
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Advancing social sustainability in aged care
How social sustainability can be understood, assessed and strengthened in aged care, from access to workforce conditions and lived experience.
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Risk allocation and management in public-private partnerships
Why risk allocation is a governance choice that shapes behaviour and incentives, rather than a contractual afterthought.